Google thinks having an abortion or miscarriage is ‘failure’

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So if you google ‘failure’ one of the suggestions that comes up in Google is abortion and miscarriage

I’m outraged. But I don’t know what to do about it, there isn’t exactly someone I can email to to complain!

Isn't it classified as a failed pregnancy? Am sure I've heard that term for a miscarriage at least

Aren’t google suggestions generated based on what people search for...so maybe some people are searching these terms rather than google setting them

They are both terms for failed pregnancy. The terms can be applied to other situations, in which case they mean failure.

I see where you're coming from... but it depends on context.

E.g.

"miscarriage of justice"
"abort a flight"

A miscarriage can just mean 'an unsuccessful outcome of something planned'

Google licenses Oxford Dictionary for that. If you’ve seen it yourself; you’d report it to them - it pulls in from them.

It’s likely to be there as an associated word due to “failed pregnancy”, so likely won’t be removed, as it’s not intended as a judgement.

But it’s not Google, and it doesn’t appear to show up often. It doesn’t for me.

Also it could relate to other situations. It could mean miscarriage of justice for example or if you have to abort a plan or mission that would be a failure. It's not just about pregnancy.

Google didn’t hand select those responses, they are from a dictionary or user generated content. As others have said they are used in pother contexts. Stand down with your outrage.

Abort a mission!
Miscarriage of justice!
These are actual words used in a different context. You need to calm down and stop pearl clutching lovely

A failed mission- “abort abort!”

Doesn’t come up on mine. Perhaps it’s because you’re googling those topics.

Why are you so outraged by it? They are both failed pregnancies in that the standard outcome wasn’t achieved.

A miscarriage of justice means a failure of the judicial system
Aborting a mission/flight etc means to to end it prematurely i.e you fail to successfully carry it out.

Stop being precious and looking for offence where there’s no need. Abort and miscarriage both have other meanings.

What a silly thread.

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failure
/ˈfeɪljə/
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noun
1.
lack of success.
"an economic policy that is doomed to failure"
Similar:
lack of success
non-success
non-fulfilment
abortion
miscarriage
defeat
frustration
collapse
foundering
misfiring
coming to nothing
falling through
fizzling out
fiasco
debacle
catastrophe
disaster
blunder
vain attempt
damp squib
flop
botch
hash
foul-up
screw-up
washout
let-down
dead loss
dead duck
lead balloon
lemon
fail
cock-up
pig's ear
snafu
clinker
vulgar slangfuck-up
balls-up
Opposite:
success

the neglect or omission of expected or required action.
"their failure to comply with the basic rules"
Similar:
negligence
remissness

This is what I get but many of the first list weren't visible - they only appeared when I copied it.

I had an argument on FB with someone recently who described an ugly building as an 'abortion'. I said it was gross and insensitive.

I think it's an archaic phrase.

@KindergartenKop

I had an argument on FB with someone recently who described an ugly building as an 'abortion'. I said it was gross and insensitive.

I think it's an archaic phrase.

Given that the world is batshit, could they have meant aberration?

OP it's just a medical term.

@LunaHeather we discussed it at length, apparently it can be used in that context!

Naturally it was a man who used it.

You seem over sensitive. Words can relate to more than one situation.
When running tests on my analyser at work and fails it says the test was “aborted” - a completely accurate word to use in that situation.
And I hear the media talking about miscarriages of justice all the time.

I’m outraged
Oh dear what a pity never mind. Nasty, heartless OED, eh?

Google doesn't "think" anything

I think you have misunderstood this quite badly OP...

Google are just returning search results, they’re not providing definitions. Regardless, as plenty have pointed out the words have meaning in multiple context, not just pregnancy.

It can mean those things - ‘the mission was aborted’, ‘there was a miscarriage of justice’. It’s just part of the layered meanings of those words, rather than a moral judgment by google.